Word: losing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, which contributed to Michigan's overconfidence, Illinois owes thanks. Most sports figures who appear on TIME'S covers promptly lose their form...
...policeman's army of 100,000 has not the barest fighting chance of defending itself should its borders be violated. And of all the neutrals save the strong and seagirt U. S., The Netherlands, with the world's third most valuable colonial empire, has the most to lose. Invasion by Germany would be the strongest temptation to Japan to seize the rich Netherlands Indies, and the only force on which Queen Wilhelmina could possibly count to prevent such a grab is the British China Squadron based at Singapore. The British since Sept. 1 have had plenty of other...
...long time. A few hours later President Hacha, seemingly in good health, appeared at Castle Lana and gloomily broadcast: "Any further sacrifice for the Czech Nation serves no purpose. . . . Face the cold realities. . . . Senseless opposition to armed might . . . can't win, but on the contrary can lose much. . . . The Czech people have been spared the horrors of war, such as defeated Poland, and our sons have not been led into battle, as in the case of Austria. You are able, almost all of you, to work in peace. In certain ways your position is probably better than that...
Dick Harlow was a soldier during the war and he can take it on the chin. In the heat of a football battle Dick sits on the bench calmly smoking an Havana cigar. Win or lose Dick takes it good naturedly; he works against overconfidence but he heaps praises where praises...
...Poland is to rise again, Potocki knows that his work has just begun. Physically destroyed, Poland still flourishes in the hearts of its people. If the Allies should win, will Poland be reconstructed as in 1918? And if the Allies should lose . . . if . . . if . . . ? The Vagabond knows that the answers are far away, but he will get some clue to them from Count Potocki today at 4 o'clock in Emerson...